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Rachel Maria
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Sober, solo mom in the far east SF Bay Area. Educator, Swiftie, Supernatural (TV show) fan, passionate about health for mind, body, & spirit.
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“Musk let a bunch of Dunning-Kruger kids…loose on federal agencies, where they began firing workers without trying to understand what these workers do or why it might be important…who turn out to have been doing things like, um, securing the nation’s nuclear weapons.”
March 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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"Having one person in charge of whether or not the US government actually spends the money that’s been legally obligated by Congress is not just a democratic disaster, it is absolutely a recipe for economic crisis," says EPI's @joshbivens-econ.bsky.social:

www.epi.org/blog/before-...
Before DOGE, the debt ceiling used to be the only quick way political extremists could cause a financial crisis
The U.S. statutory debt ceiling is an absurd, arbitrary, and worthless political institution, yet it also poses a profound danger of throwing the economy into a full-blown crisis whenever it looms. El...
www.epi.org
February 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Link to original threads of import...

On the egregious accounting errors I found within a few minutes of scanning through DOGE's itemized "savings": threadreaderapp.com/thread/18918...

On DOGE quietly adjusting numbers in response to the first thread: threadreaderapp.com/thread/18924...
February 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM